Larry Swedroe reports on studies showing that active bond funds won’t protect you in a bear market. With the current fear of rising interest rates, no doubt some investors will try active bond funds anyway in the hopes of avoiding losses.

Where Does All My Money Go? knocks off a few cobwebs and features a podcast with Som Seif who launched Claymore back in 2005 and is now CEO of Purpose Investments.

My Own Advisor gave a great summary of the 2013 Canadian Personal Finance Conference that was held in Toronto last weekend. I had a great time at the conference and enjoyed answering questions as part of a panel. Many thanks to Mark Gookfield, a.k.a. The Blunt Bean Counter, for a great talk and his gift of a sleeve of 3 golf balls. I’ll try not to lose them all on the same hole.

Big Cajun Man observes that the typical career earns only about 1000 biweekly pay cheques, and you’d better start thinking about building some savings before they run out.

Life Insurance Canada has some sound advice for buying life insurance. I liked the part where he said that the word “investment” in connection with life insurance should be preceded by the word “crappy”.

6 comments:

Nice to finally meet you. You had some great points during your panel discussion. Man, if BCM really loses the balls way out and you may lose them all on the same hole, you guys must be some real duffers :)

An Apple bank would be a worthwhile innovation. On that note I was pleased to hear recently that ING Direct allows you to deposit a cheque using your smartphone. Naturally it requires something more modern than what I have, like an iPhone.